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If you go down to the woods today
PETER FROST takes a walk in the woods that you and I still own, despite Tory attempts to sell them off

THIS month the Forestry Commission celebrates its centenary.

After the destruction and mass armament production of the first world war the country needed tons and tons of timber, for building, for pit props and 100 other jobs.

To provide such timber, the new commission bought large amounts of former agricultural land, eventually becoming the largest landowner in Britain.

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